Hoax alert: These quackers aren’t Texan

There’s a new urban legend in downtown San Antonio, and it’s full of quack.

You may have received an e-mail that begins like this: “Something really cute happened in downtown San Antonio this week.” You can read it all you want, but don’t get too warm-hearted.

The e-mail kind of goes like this:

A mother duck laid her eggs in a 10-foot high concrete awning at the Frost Bank building in downtown San Antonio. When the eggs hatched, it was time for the ducklings to go for their first swim, so they started jumping onto the sidewalk. A guy whose office window faced the nest saw this and immediately ran to the sidewalk to start catching the hatchlings one by one, with mother duck looking on. The office worker then transported the ducklings to the River Walk with their mom in tow. Then they lived happily ever after.

I don’t want to include the e-mail here because I don’t want to help circulate it. But the Snopes link above gives you the story pretty much verbatim. It changes locales and names. For instance, the Good Samaritan of ducks is Michael R., who works in Frost Bank’s accounting department.

Renee Sabel, senior vice president of communications for Frost Bank, confirmed the hoax to me on Monday: “We have no idea (how the e-mail started), we have nobody by that name in the accounting department.”

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This is real, was on the news via video 5/18/09 11PM news from San Antonio Texas. Not pictures, a video of these ducklings throwing themselfs off the ledge and this guy barely having time to put one down before another came falling at him.

You people need to put your efforts into all the Nigerian’s who are trying to scam anyone they can out of belongings and money.